back to article HANA has SAP cuddling up to 'smaller partners'

Think "SAP and partners" and the mind goes to mega names – giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Fujitsu, Accenture and Deliotte. SAP generally looks to giants who wish to make their hardware and software better at storing and serving the software titan's systems or customising and installing SAP’s suite to run whole operations. …

  1. Fenton

    New business ideas

    Unfortunately the SI's/Business Analysts are just not coming up with new ideas that real time systems can bring.

    Just accelerating the compute time of existing business processes is not enough, we need new ideas new ways of tackling business that can take true advantage of real-time processing

  2. LeoP

    What we don't need

    is more Software by Oracle, SAP and friends tying up IT budgets with exorbitant yearly licensing costs. See, some of that IT money is needed to do real work.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    In what universe SAP is a company from the hardware server world?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "half of April found 55 per cent of 377 respondents had yet to buy “some type” of HANA product."

    which means 45% have bought HANA... which is really good for a three year old database.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Does anyone think this will give Oracle a run for its market share, long term?

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